Heather Richardson
Special Counsel

Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Expertise
- Director statutory and fiduciary duties
- Restraint of trade
- Director disputes
- Shareholder disputes and oppression proceedings
- Trust disputes
- Sale of business disputes
- Lease disputes
- Complex contractual disputes
- Misleading and deceptive conduct claims under the Australian Consumer Law
- Search orders
- Intellectual property
- Managing voluntary recalls and obligations to consumers
Experience
- Secured a Supreme Court search order on urgent application.
- Acted for a creditor in a successful secured payment claim under a foreign exchange contract.
- Represented a client in the Federal Court under ACL claims involving unauthorised use of a prescribed mark.
- Appearing before an international sporting disciplinary tribunal in relation to allegations regarding conduct.
- Achieved successful preliminary discovery in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
- Managed judicial advice matters before the Supreme Court of Victoria.
- Ongoing advisory role in relation to a voluntary national product recall.